Microsoft looks back to its future

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Satya Nadella, the new chief executive of Microsoft, says that his main vice
is to sign up for online courses he will never have enough time to complete.
Well, he will have even less spare time now, as he tries to make sense of
the complicated business bequeathed him by Steve Ballmer.

His appointment, though, is welcome. With a background more rooted in
technology than that of Mr Ballmer, Mr Nadella has more in common with
Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates, whose choice he is said to have been and
who is set for a greater role as he steps down